What's the difference between strop and strow?

Strop


Definition:

  • (n.) A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3.
  • (v. t.) To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.
  • (n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Solskjaer's need to gamble was such that he withdrew Fábio da Silva, by now in such a strop with himself and everybody else that another sending off probably beckoned.
  • (2) Or perhaps it's all down to people taking Wagner's strops too seriously .
  • (3) We threw a strop and we threatened to lose our focus but we gathered ourselves at half-time.
  • (4) Is his reputation for walking out in a strop justified?
  • (5) The Tory speech writer condemned Goldsmith for throwing a “strop” by quitting and was unhappy when the Tories announced they would not stand.
  • (6) After last season's fiasco with Peter Odemiwingie, Steve Clarke wants to sign a totally dependable striker who's not going to throw any strops.
  • (7) Infamously, he refused to appear in the video for his UK No 2 hit Wearing My Rolex , apparently spending two days on set having a strop in the back of his car.
  • (8) Harry's strop was both maladroit and inappropriate, to the extent that you might think his bark is worse than his bite.
  • (9) Just a gobby teenager stropping off to her bedroom.
  • (10) The aircraft is suspended, in an arrested nose dive, from a complicated cat's cradle of strops and ratchet straps.
  • (11) Emerge into focus Kevin Garvey, police chief of Mapleton County, ripped and brooding in the way only fictional police chiefs can be, and in a right old strop about a memorial for the Departed, which he predicts will end in a ruck when mysterious religious group, the Guilty Remnant, show up.

Strow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Same as Strew.

Example Sentences:

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